

2022
The Parliament of the
Commonwealth of Australia
Presented and read a first time
Work Health and Safety Amendment Bill 2022
No. , 2022
(Employment and Workplace Relations)
A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to work health and safety, and for related purposes
Contents
1............ Short title............................................................................................ 1
2............ Commencement.................................................................................. 1
3............ Schedules............................................................................................ 2
Schedule 1—Amendments 3
Safe Work Australia Act 2008 3
Work Health and Safety Act 2011 4
A Bill for an Act to amend legislation relating to work health and safety, and for related purposes
The Parliament of Australia enacts:
This Act is the Work Health and Safety Amendment Act 2022 .
(1) Each provision of this Act specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.
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1. The whole of this Act |
A single day to be fixed by Proclamation. However, if the provisions do not commence within the period of 6 months beginning on the day this Act receives the Royal Assent, they commence on the day after the end of that period. |
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Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this Act as originally enacted. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this Act.
(2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this Act. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this Act.
Legislation that is specified in a Schedule to this Act is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this Act has effect according to its terms.